Sarah Ruden

Sarah Ruden has published several books, including, most recently, The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible and a new translation of Augustine’s Confessions.

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Ancient Identities

I can’t read the Epistles without wanting to know a lot more—yet feeling stuck. Paula Fredriksen’s book on Apostle Paul’s writings helps

By Sarah Ruden

September 28, 2017

Theology

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Slaves Are Catching Our Shrimp

The Rohingyas are caught between the alternatives of enslavement, annihilation, and impossible-looking escape over the water. Will we take any action?

By Sarah Ruden

July 27, 2017

Foreign Affairs

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Poem | 'Lament'

We couldn’t get our special wine/ (And Pharaoh said, “Not me, not mine”).

By Sarah Ruden

August 22, 2016

Poetry

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Poem | The Divorce

In a small way, the foreign residents / Are rounded up—the Spartans sit and comb / Their hair, watched by the Persians from their tents— / Rationing starts...

By Sarah Ruden

December 16, 2015

Poetry

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Poem | When I Am a Middle-Aged Woman

I will wear sweatshirts with bright appliqués / Of owls, and work for Head Start. Saturdays // Will be the food bank; Sundays, church at ten. / Evenings I'll...

By Sarah Ruden

November 23, 2015

Poetry

Spirituality

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Poem | The Old Wall

Arch after arch set in the brick, / Rosettes along them, pebble-thick; // Draped, helmed, armed figures, scribes with scrolls, / And eagles in their leafy holes:...

By Sarah Ruden

November 23, 2015

Poetry

Spirituality

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